Case Study: University of Canberra saves A$135,000 and modernizes disaster recovery with Commvault

University of Canberra saves A$135,000 by eliminating tapes with AWS and Commvault

The University of Canberra, serving 14,000+ students and 1,000+ staff, faced costly, time‑consuming and risky tape‑based offsite backups that threatened availability of critical systems (student records, HR, finance, databases and virtual infrastructure). The university needed a more robust data‑protection approach to enable frequent backups, meet long‑term retention requirements and safeguard its reputation and digital student services.

By deploying Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery with Amazon S3 (IA) and Glacier, UC automated daily off‑site disaster‑recovery copies, enabled deduplicated streaming to the cloud and archived long‑term data without manual intervention; the DR solution went live in under four weeks and the retention migration took two days. The move eliminated tape overheads (A$135,000 saved), delivered 6x faster cloud streaming, a 38% improvement in the backup window, reduced full backup times from days to minutes/one day, and freed IT resources to focus on digital strategy while improving service reliability.

University of Canberra

Justin Mason

Associate Director, Vendor and Operations